Where: Chiba, Japan (35.8° N, 140.8° E: paleocoordinates 36.9° N, 139.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)

• middle late Miocene; age after Shikama et al., 1973

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. Oishi and Y. Hasegawa. 1995. A list of fossil cetaceans in Japan. The Island Arc 3:493-505 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 76015: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 08.11.2007

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